The Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 6

Lucifer: Who flees from me will love me all the same. Children of Earth have loved me from the first And only think that hatred is my due. So do they ever seek me in my deeds. If I had not as ornament to life Sent beauty to their souls, they would long since Have pined away in truth's cold empty forms Throughout the long dull progress of the Earth. 'Tis I who fill the artist's soul with power And whatsoe'er of beauty men have seen Hath had its prototype within my realm— Now ask thyself, if thou shouldst fear me still.